JULY, JULY! MY FAVORITE MONTH!
I'm so excited. It's July!
So, I forgot to mention that transfers were last week. I failed to mentioned it because nothing changed with Sister Hall and I in Whitehall. Whoo! We're both staying, for which I am super grateful. I somehow managed to avoid ever more craziness going on with all the new sisters right now, like double training.
We've been doing a lot of service lately, like helping Sister Pendleton organize/clean up her basement from when she moved in, which was essentially a giant game of Tetris. Along with that, we helped the Elders out to move a family into the ward. We were also all ready to help the Spanish Elders paint a member's house, but it ended up not working out. And we have gobs of stuff lined up this week, which is always exciting!
What's even more exciting is that we have two people who are set to be baptized on July 14th! We've been working with the Martinez family for the past transfer (six weeks), and it's been amazing to see their family grow. The kids are 13, 10, and 7 years old, so it's been a new experience teaching younger people. We've come up with some creative ideas, such as making a 10 Commandments tablet out of cardboard and having Sister Hall play her violin as the rest of us sing "Follow the Prophet." We also have fun coloring pages that Elder Flake drew for us to hand out.
The Martinez family is awesome, and I'm definitely excited to see their kids baptized! The whole family is genuine and humble, and it's been a testimony to me to see that the gospel really does bless and affect families for the better!
We had a severe tornado warning on Thursday, which was exciting and freaky at the same time. We had Missy pick us up from the Martinez's to drive down to a dinner in Allentown, and the rain, wind, and lightning were crazy! Needless to say, we are safe and I was not picked up in a whirlwind. (3 Nephi 8:16 "And there were some who were carried away in the whirlwind; and whither they went no man knoweth, save they know that they were carried away.").
One awesome miracle this week was when we went to a part of our area that we haven't ever worked in and just decided to knock. We drove up a street, trying to decide where to stop when I saw a white vehicle and felt like we needed to stop. The second house we knocked on a guy answered the door and picked up his dog so it didn't run out.
"Is that a corgi?!" I basically shouted at him. (For those of you who don't know, I was roommates with Shelly for two years, who LOVES corgis, and I've seen hundreds of pictures of them, but never one in real life. And boy, are they adorable!)
So we got to talking and we asked what his dog's name was. "Gambit."
Me: "Like the X-Men character?!" And on.
I promise our conversation turned into a gospel topic. He asked why we were out here, so we taught and testified to him about the Book of Mormon. He said that he was jealous that we could say that we knew, because he just always hoped that sort of stuff was true. We flipped open to Moroni 10:3-5, which says:
" 3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
He was stunned and looked at us and said, "That was incredibly specific to what I was just asking! How did you do that?" We told him that it was the Spirit who led us. It was an amazing miracle! So cool!
President and Sister Anderson are officially here! The did a two-day mission tour so that the missionaries would be able to meet them, but they also announced a few changes, which are super exciting. Drum roll, please? Starting at the end of August, almost all missionaries will get tablets! We were all shocked and excited at the news, mainly because it will automatically update all our record-keeping information to the mission president. SO EXCITING!!! And they even announced that there are "more things in the works," which I can't even begin to dream up.
What's awesome is that on Sunday we had a third hour lesson about using technology to our advantage and spreading the gospel. The internet is a huge presence in people's lives (unless you're my dad), and it's something that the Lord's given us to utilize. The gospel is advancing in technology, and so should we. But I just feel the missionary work changing, and there's something big happening that is right around the corner, and none of us really know what the Lord's planning right now.
Well you guys, enjoy July, because it's the best month of all months.
Love you!
Sister Sarah Singleton
The Scranton and Lehigh Valley zone with President and Sister Anderson.
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